The Lightning Cave
Angela Machos Murphy
Paperback
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Nov. 16, 2009)
When Leo moves to a new town in the middle of summer he can't imagine anything worse than spending the next two months alone. Every kid his age seems to have gone away on vacation, except for one- a girl named Ollie McEwan. Leo becomes friends with her, but vows to return to the lonely life the second she pulls out a pink pony or wants to have a tea party! Soon enough, though, he realizes he's got more important things to think about. Like how to be friends with a girl who's braver than he is, what to do when your secret hide-out turns into a diamond mine, and most importantly, how to battle a monster made of lightning. Maybe spending the summer alone wouldn't have been so bad after all?